topic Re: consequences of no snmp in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

consequences of no snmp

Lars Oeschey — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 03:41:40 GMT

Hi,

I just found out that on one machine the snmpd was no more running. HPSIM didn't complain about that, what brought me to the question: What are the consequences of a failing snmp service? Obvioulsy hardware defects aren't sent to HPSIM anymore I guess. Shouldn't HPSIM bring an error in such an event?

Lars

Re: consequences of no snmp

Aravindh Rajaram — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 04:49:33 GMT

The other thing that would get afftected is the data collection. I guess you use more than one protocol to manage the servers. Further sim will not report the failure of the snmp service.

Re: consequences of no snmp

Lars Oeschey — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 06:17:14 GMT

ok, since we use HPSIM for hardware monitoring only, I can use nagios to monitor the snmp service. Otherwise there would be no sense in monitoring hardware with a piece of software that could just fail...

Re: consequences of no snmp

Sakti Chakravarty — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:21:34 GMT

Lars,

You could create an Automatic Event Handling task that sends you an email when the HW state of the server changes.

If you have ping and SNMP polling enabled and the SNMP fails, the HW state will degrade.

Cheers
Sakti

Re: consequences of no snmp

Lars Oeschey — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 01:34:50 GMT

I took a look at the HW status polling task, all 3 protocols are active, so failure of SNMP should have brought a HW status degrade?

Re: consequences of no snmp

Lars Oeschey — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 02:14:50 GMT

ok, I just tried that. Disabled snmpd on a machine, no degradation of any status in HPSIM